All we need in order to win on FISA is for the House to do nothing. No vote means “compromises,” no immunity, no unfettered governmental spying on its citizens.

I think this is our chance.

One really hopes that that attitude isn’t driving House debate…or lack thereof.

UPDATE (9:55 a.m. Friday): Speaker Pelosi is now talking “exclusivity” as the key issue. More generally, she says, House Democrats are “at the mercy of the 17 or 18 Democrats in the Senate who are voting with the Republicans on this.”

But…there are enough Democrats in the House who would vote for the Senate bill that it would pass. So who are they at the mercy of?